In GNU/Linux distros everything is mounted with write caching enabled by
default. This causes some nuissances with external storage devices:

 - progress statuses display the progress of writing to cache instead
   of the actual write operation to the device itself
 - data to be written is often still waiting in the cache after
   progress statuses show completition, causing people to mistakenly
   pull out devices prematurely
 - "safely removing" devices finally forces data to be actually
   written, but without any indication of how much time this will
   take


`media-remount-syncd` is an **experimental workaround** for the issues
above.

It is a simple shell script that runs in the background as a systemd
service and automatically remounts any new mounts in the `/media`
directory with the sync option, which disables write caching. It uses
`findmnt --poll=mount` to detect new mounts, then remounts them using
`mount -o remount,sync`.


### Install

    sudo ./install.sh


### Test

Plug-in (and mount) some external storage device, then run:

    systemctl status media-remount-syncd.service

The output should contain "mount -o remount,sync" log lines.


### Uninstall

    sudo ./remove.sh

